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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A66393	The difference between the Church of England, and the Church of Rome in opposition to a late book, intituled, An agreement between the Church of England, and Church of Rome.	Williams, John, 1636?-1709.	1687 (1687)	Wing W2701A; ESTC R38648	38,428	98

Ancient and most other Churches in viz. Episcopacy and a Liturgy and it had been to the like purpose if he had also shewed their Agreement in the great Doctrines of Christian Religion And yet even here he fails again for he that concludes In a word the Agreement between the English Clergy and the Romanist about the immediate Divine Right of Episcopacy is so full c. doth before acknowledg that Ordination by Presbyters is granted in the Church of Rome to be valid and regular and that all those that hold the Supreme Jurisdiction of the Pope over the whole Catholick Church visible do hold the Divine Right of Bishops to be but mediate mediante Papa So that he is gone from an Agreement of Churches to an Agreement between Persons from a full Agreement in Opinion to an Agreement in Government and Worship from Worship to some parts of Worship from Demonstrations to Inferences and framed Propositions of his own from an Agreement at last to a Disagreement And now we may look back with some comfort to his bold offer and clear demonstration at the beginning when he saith The Author hath with some clearness demonstrated the Agreement of Opinion between the Church of England Men and the Church of Rome to be so exact and full that if the Government should so design it were but dictum factum according to their Doctrine and a Cassandrian Peace might be patch'd up presently with Rome He advances as if he were a kind of Plenipotentiary but it may be suspected he that has this way of Demonstration is not like to be very fortunate in the Negotiation Thus much shall suffice for our Author's way of Demonstration and his Attempt to shew the Agreement between the Church of England and Church of Rome leaving a fuller Answer to some of his particular Discourses to an abler Pen. But yet there remains another part toward a just state of the Controversy and that is as he well observed to let the World know how far these Churches differ as well as wherein they are agreed But that was a Province he had no mind to Prosecute as being tho more to the purpose yet not so much to his design For certainly he that will demonstrate the Agreement to be full and exact must either suppose there is no Difference or if there be that the Difference is not considerable enough to hinder the Agreement But if there be a Difference and the Difference in points Diametrically opposite and irreconcilable it is to no purpose to shew their Agreement were it so to be full and exact in others And that this is the case and the Disagreement far greater than the Agreement I shall endeavour to prove and that not from an Author or two or far-fetched Consequences and forced Interpretations and dubious Expressions but from sufficient Authorities and the avowed Principles of both Churches Such are the 39 Articles the Catechism the Homilies and Liturgy of the Church of England Such again are the Councils more especially the Council of Trent the Catechism ad Parochos the Rhemists Annotations the Missal and Breviaries according to which and the like a Papist Represented as the Mode of speaking has been of late doth believe In order to which I shall premise 1. That there are some Articles which both Churches do in express Terms agree in called by our Author the great Doctrines of Religion viz. Art. 1. of the Holy Trinity and so how Socinians can subscribe the Articles of the Church of England as this Author affirms I understand not Art. 2. of the Word or Son of God Art. 3. of the going down of Christ into Hell Art. 4. of the Resurrection of Christ Art. 5. of the Holy Ghost Art. 7. of the Old Testament Art. 8. of the Three Creeds Art. 12. of good Works Art. 16. of Sin after Baptism Art. 18. of obtaining eternal Salvation only by the Name of Christ Art. 23. of Ministring in the Congregation Art. 26. of the unworthiness of Ministers Art. 27. of Baptism Art. 33. of Excommunicate Persons Art. 38. of Christian mens goods Art. 39. of a Christian mans Oath Against these the Jesuit Johan Roberti hath little or nothing to object in his small Tract purposely written in Opposition to our Articles But of these Articles it is to be observed there are some which each party differs as much from the other in when they come to explain themselves as if there had been no agreement in Terms Thus it happens in Articles 3 d 7 th and 15 th as shall afterwards in part be shewed 2. There are other Articles wherein both Churches do agree in the Sence tho they differ in Terms or that are not so much Controversies between Church and Church as between private Doctors in each Church Of this Opinion is a Learned Forreigner of the Reformed Religion about the matter contained in Articles the 10 th and 17 th of Free will and of Predestination and Election Of the former he saith The difference that our Adversaries will object between them and us upon this point of Free-will is only imaginary and a meer cavil Of the latter he concludes Since we agree in the Fundamentals of this Doctrine as we have already set forth and that our Dissent is but with a few of their Doctors it would not be very hard I should think to find out such a bias of Temperament drawn from the Word of God in proposing of these Opinions and in Terms so proportioned to their Sublimity as all humble and moderate Spirits would find sufficient for their Satisfaction 3. There are other Points which are matter of Liberty and left undetermined in the Church of England And so She doth receive into her Communion as well those that deny as affirm But on the contrary the Church of Rome hath determined several Points of this Nature to be Matters of Faith and anathematized those that do not so receive them Thus they are accursed by the Council of Trent that say We are formally justified by the Righteousness of Christ the only formal cause of our Justification being the Justice of God as it s there declared cap. 8. or that we are justified by the alone Imputation of Christ's Righteousness Or that shall say Justifying Faith is nothing else than a trust or confidence in the Divine Mercy forgiving Sins for Christs sake c. In which and the like unless the Church of England will curse those whom She doth bless and cast out of her Communion such as She receives into it She can no more be reconciled to the Church of Rome than in those other Points that for the matter of them are held and declared by her self to be false and erroneous 4. There are Articles which the two Churches do in whole or in part so differ in that the Doctrine of the Church of England cannot be the Doctrine of the Church of Rome nor the Doctrine